A Texas-led coalition of energy-producing states has asked the Supreme Court to hear a case involving the Obama administration's efforts to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

The petition, which was filed last week, comes 10 months after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the legal underpinnings of the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever rules limiting emissions of greenhouse gases.

In the 33-page petition, the states said the justices should hear their appeal because the new federal rules are hurting their economies. The EPA "is a runaway federal agency that must be reined in," Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said.

The federal agency concluded in 2009 that greenhouse gases pose a public health threat and require potentially costly limits from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources.

Such rules could have a profound impact on Texas, which emits more carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases than any other state. The state sued to block the rules, but has yet to win.

The petition takes aim at the EPA's "tailoring rule," which raised the threshold for regulation so that only the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions would be subject to it. Texas argues that the agency rewrote the Clean Air Act to come up with the rule.

The petition also takes another swing at the Supreme Court's 2007 decision that cleared the way for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a pollutant. It contends the ruling should be "reconsidered or overturned in light of the preposterous consequences that arise from treating carbon dioxide as an 'air pollutant' under the Clean Air Act."

"The court has ruled that the Clean Air Act covers climate-altering pollution, just like any other pollution," he said. "I don't see it reaching a different conclusion now."

The rules require new and expanding facilities to use the "best available control technology" - which the EPA has not yet defined - to limit the releases. For now, plants are achieving the limits through greater efficiency.

The cost to industry is not clear, officials said, but the impact across Texas will be significant. The state has 774 power plants, refineries and other industrial facilities large enough to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the EPA.

In addition to Texas, the petition's signers include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota.